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ROI Tool Summary and Intended Use 1  2. ROI Tool Elements and Illustrative Case Studies 3  3. ROI Tool User Instructions 10  \nPreface  \nThis document describes the Business Case ROI Tool, which calculates a societal return on investment for intercity passenger rail investments as viewed from the perspectives of local, state/regional, and federal public agencies. It is the third volume in the series: Framework for Assessing the Business Case ROI for Intercity Passenger Rail Corridor Investments. It is intended for use alongside Volume 1: Guide for Decision-Makers and Volume 2: Methodology.  \nIt has three sections: (1) a summary of the tool and its intended implementation, taken from Chapter 6 of Volume 1: Guide for Decision-Makers, (2) a description of the tool elements and case studies that illustrate the interpretation of results, taken from Section D of Volume 2: Methodology, and (3) user instructions, taken from the instruction sheet in the ROI spreadsheet workbook.  \nThe tool and associated documentation were developed by Glen Weisbrod and Ira Hirschman of EBP, and Simon Tan of the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) . Please refer to the Acknowledgements page of Volume 1: Guide for Decision-Makers to see a list of all parties who provided input, review and oversight for this project.  \n1. ROI Tool Summary and Intended Use  \nFrom Chapter 6 of Volume 1:Guide for Decision Makers  \nThe ROI Tool calculates the societal ROI (return on investment) associated with HS&IPR (high speed and intercity passenger rail) projects. Stakeholders are typically recognized to be federal government, each state served by HS&IPR, each city served by it, and private sector developers and operators.  \nOverview of the ROI Calculator Tool. The ROI Calculator is an Excel workbook file that provides a straightforward means of progressing through key decision points to arrive at ROI measures that compare the value of benefits to costs for each stakeholder. It is important to note that the tool provides for this comparison in a computational sense but is not prescriptive as to how investment costs should or will ultimately be borne by federal, state, local, or private sector stakeholders. Decisions about investment funding responsibilities are matters of policy and are arrived at by negotiated processes. Instead, the scenarios discussed below apply alternative assumptions about the assignment of benefit and investment responsibilities, as they represent an essential element to any ROI metric in which benefits are mathematically related to project investment costs. The assignments among stakeholders are made only for purposes of illustrating the tool’s operation. The ROI Calculator has four elements summarized below:  \nElements of the High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail ROI Calculator Tool  \nThe ROI Calculator generates a traditional benefit/cost ratio and a business case ROI reflecting all relevant business case factors. These results are shown for the overall project, based on the total project cost and total benefits. Results are also calculated separately for each stakeholder, showing their benefit share assuming it allocated based just on user benefits and again assuming it is allocated based on all relevant business case factors.  \nIllustrative Examples of Business Case ROI Calculations and Results. It can be useful to consider three examples to illustrate how the allocation of benefits among stakeholders can differ in different contexts:  \n(1) Three State Project-A scenario where the context is a rail line spanning three adjacent states, creating commonly recognized benefits that do not overlap among states. 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